Age of Empires II HD – How to Play on LAN

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I seen some videos that doesn't tell you anything about it… I just want to play AOE2HD with friends without internet using the LAN like old times.

If you know any method to achieve it but you need internet via tungle/hamachi etc post it anyway any help is welcome.

Best Answer

You cannot play Age of Empires II HD on LAN. To start a multiplayer match you require an internet connection.

The only way to have a match is to connect via the Lobby Browser, which requires you to be logged in with Steam. Once you have started a match, it will use the players IP addresses to determine how they are connected. If all players are on the same router, it will act as a LAN game, and not send data over the internet.

There are very, very, many threads on Steam supporting this.

Below, trying to start Multiplayer when not connected to internet:
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And with internet:
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